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Adopt a Ubiquiti USG to a Unifi Cloud Controller & automate device deployments

Part 3 of 6 in Complete Ubiquiti UniFi + Synology Network Build

Jay Rogers June 20th, 2018

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Learn how to adopt a Unifi Security Gateway to a Unifi Cloud Controller. We’ll also set up our Unifi network to automatically deploy other Unifi devices with our network settings.

See the entire “Complete Ubiquiti UniFi + Synology Network Build” course here: https://srvrsi.de/unifi-and-synology-build-course

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Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway (USG)

This is the router that we use to connect to the internet.

Ubiquiti UniFi PoE Switch (US-48-500W)

This is the switch that provides power to all of our PoE devices.

Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC-PRO

This is our wireless access point that we use. It’s faster than Gigabit and it even has a 2nd passthrough ethernet port.

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Course Complete Ubiquiti UniFi + Synology Network Build

6 lessons

Deploy your network controller and devices

Deploy a Unifi Cloud Controller for $5 and under 10 minutes

Upgrade your Ubiquiti USG firmware the easy way

Adopt a Ubiquiti USG to a Unifi Cloud Controller & automate device deployments

14 mins 11 secs

Securing your network

Configure a secure guest wireless network using VLANs, firewalls, and throttling

Installing the Synology NAS

Installing and preparing your Synology Server

Enable key-based SSH authentication on Synology servers

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